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Courtney, who, Avitli the assistance of a number of other gentlemen, 

 dragged it up on the beach. A series of measurements was taken, the 

 morning after capture; the total length (including caudal fin) was 8 feet 

 7 inches. — Mr. Fletcher read extracts from a letter written by Mr. F. 

 Foskett Milford, and kindly communicated by Mr. T. H. Smith, of Manly, 

 per favour of Mr. W. Houston, of the Land Court of New South Wales, 

 upon the occui-rence of freshwater eels in Norfolk Island. Mr. Milford, 

 formerly a resident on the island, stated that, during a period of drought, 

 he had seen large freshwater eels stranded opposite Deastey's place in the 

 drain known as the water-mill; and that he had been reliably informed of 

 their occurrence in a deep pool, perhaps 12 feet or thereabouts in depth, 

 about 70 yards from the cliff where the Cascades waterfall is in evidence. 

 Marine eels, on the other hand, particularly the green eel, were to be caught 

 all round the island from the water's edge to three miles off or even more. 

 — 2) Kevision of Australian Tortricina. By E. Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 

 Corresponding Member. — The author dealt with the Tortricina of Austra- 

 lia (and New Zealand) in two papers contributed to the Society's Proceed- 

 ings for 1881 (Vol. VI. pp. 410 and 629), the number of Australian 

 species therein recorded being 132. The Revision increases the number 

 to 434 species, of which about 232 are described as new; the present paper, 

 the first instalment of the Revision, is concerned with 290 species, com- 

 prised in the Carposinidae , Phaloniadae and Tortricidae. For this 

 excellent result the author is greatly indebted to the aid of a number of 

 Australian correspondents who forwarded collections; these, together .with 

 the material which he had himself accumulated , were taken to the British 

 Museum, and a close comparison instituted with "Walker's types; with the 

 result , it is believed , that every one of these was identified satisfactorily. 

 The Tortricina are considered to have originated from the Hilarographa- 

 group of the Plutellidae. The Chlidanotidae and Eucosmidae started 

 as two collateral lines of development, but the former never came to 

 much. Laspeyresia was the earliest form of the Eucosmidae, and the 

 Argi/rojilofc-growp sprang immediately from this. From the Arr/ijroploee- 

 group originated the Pfro/?ca-group of the Tortricidae, and the Carpo- 

 sinidae are a specialised development of the Peronea-gron-p. The Phalo- 

 niadae are an independent offshoot also from an early form of the Tortri- 

 cidae. 



Berichtigung. 

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